Read about the event: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news-events/news/news_id/208

We are excited to announce that the MIT Energy Initiative and the MIT Energy Club are co-sponsoring a televised energy debate with representatives from the campaigns of President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney on Friday, October 5 at 7:30 pm in Kresge Auditorium at MIT. 

Friday, October 5, 2012 | 7:30 pm [seating at 7:00 pm] 

Speaker for President Barack Obama: Joseph Aldy, Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University 

Speaker for Governor Mitt Romney: Oren Cass, Domestic Policy Director; Romney for President 

Moderator: Jason Pontin, Editor of Technology Review 

Questioners: Steve Hargreaves, CNN Money; Bill Loveless, Senior Editor of Platts; Monica Trauzzi, Managing Editor and Host, E&E TV